Monday, December 31, 2018

What is New this New Year? Resolutions and Martial Arts


What is New this New Year? Resolutions and Martial Arts



A new year will never be really a New Year until you have drawn up that intimidating list of resolutions, which will nevertheless keep your spirits up for a while. With 2018 all set to bid goodbye, it is time to think of what matters to you and draw that list; and more importantly, not let it just be a matter of a while this time. Here is a glance at the top 5 New Year resolutions that we are crazy about this year, to motivate you to get it right this time.

America’s Top 5 2019 New Year Resolutions
According to one of the surveys published by mid-December (by offers.com), the top 5 New Year Resolutions of 2019 are:
  1.  Fitness: With 38% of aspirants, fitness and weight loss continues to be the top resolution for 2019, as it was in the previous year.
  2. Saving Money: With about 37% aspirants, the wish to save money almost made it to the number-one resolution, falling slightly short of the fitness goal.
  3. Travel: With more people deciding to spend some time on nourishing their wanderlust, travel made it to the third top resolution with 24% picking it for a goal.
  4. Job/Hobby: For 12% of participants, changing their jobs or finding a perfect hobby is the top resolution this year.
  5.  Friendship: For 11% of participants, making new friends is the thing to do this year, surprisingly pushing the goal of finding love to the 6th position.


Turning Resolutions into Goals: The Martial Art Method
The difference between a resolution and a goal is that, while the former is just the manifestation of a dream, the latter involves a method and plan to actually realize that dream. If you never keep your resolutions, probably the reason is that you never really know the right method. Fortunately for you, there is one master method that will help you to turn all your resolutions into actable goals, and help you keep them: that is martial arts.

If that answer surprises you, probably you are not familiar with the experience of learners who tried out the martial art method in their life. To give some instances based on the above goals,
  •          Martial arts can bring consistency to fitness resolution, by making sure that you get the perfectly right physical activity at regular intervals.
  •          It will help you develop certain personality qualities such as discipline, control, and alertness—all of which will help you to have better control over your financial life.
  •          Adventurous resolutions such as travelling or changing your job require from you a becalmed temperament, confidence, courage, and the necessary determination to take care of yourself in the face of challenges. Martial arts can teach you all that.
  •          Martial arts also improves your people skills and makes you sensitive to those around you, which are good assets if you are resolved to make new friends.

 You can learn a lot about the martial art methods at a martial art school near you. The lessons at Bruce McCorry’s Martial Arts Academy (Peabody, MA) for instance, will teach you the master art of making goals come true: how to prioritize something, how to stay committed to the goal, how to overcome challenges and resist temptations in the path, for instance. Make martial arts your buddy in your resolution journey this New Year!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!!

Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts Academy
220 Newbury St
Peabody MA 01960

Phone: (978) 535-7878
Email: info@brucemccorrys.com

Friday, December 21, 2018

The Meaning of Christmas


The Meaning of Christmas



The most wonderful time of the year has arrived. Christmas has always meant so much to us, with its wintry coziness, and the warmth of spending time with family and friends. Despite the depth of meaning that underlies Christmas, it is true that often our holidays have started becoming a celebration of superficialities. Sometimes, we find ourselves mechanically exchanging Christmas cards without pausing to add meaningful words to them. Sometimes we end up losing ourselves on a shopping spree or holiday feast that leave us not with contentment but with guilt. This year, the perfect way to celebrate Christmas would be to remember the true meaning of Christmas.

The True Meaning of Christmas
There is so much to the true meaning of Christmas that parallels any philosophy of life out there.First and foremost, Christmas is the celebration of hope. It tells us that even though life may seem bleak, even though our goals may look unattainable, and situations too difficult to handle, at the end of it all, there is always hope of a better future, a turn in fortune.

 Christmas is also a celebration of joy. The spirit of joy that Christmas stands for, has two faces. On one hand, Christmas inspires us to find true joy within ourselves – to do that little extra for ourselves to attain inner contentment and peace. On the other hand, Christmas speaks to us of the joy of communion. Meeting our loved ones, spending time with family and friends, exchanging gifts and cards – all that becomes meaningful only when lightened up by the joy of getting together and sharing happiness.

In a sense, the birth of Christ is also a metaphor of God’s mercy on mankind. Therefore, Christmas always stands for mercy and philanthropy. Finding hope and joy in Christmas becomes all the more meaningful when you extend a little of that to those who cannot afford to enjoy the beauties of life – the sick, the poor and the helpless.

Christmas Wishes from Bruce McCorry’s Academy
It is with great happiness that Bruce McCorry’s Academy of Martial Arts wishes all of you a Merry Christmas this year. This year, the academy has completed forty years of its selfless service to learners. Over the years, the academy has helped thousands of learners to face the challenges in their life and realize their goals and dreams, all through martial arts. Those who chose to learn martial arts at the academy has experienced the true joy of giving themselves and their loved ones the gifts of health, fitness, confidence, freedom from stress, and happiness. The martial arts lessons at the academy have helped kids, adults and seniors to be better individuals and better human beings. It has shown them how to do that extra little that would nourish their body, mind and soul. Academy has taught them how to handle school, work, family and relationship through the superior wisdom of age-old martial arts. Seeing the old-aged and sick learners making their comeback to life has been a moment of immense joy.

At this moment, we state with pride and joy that your being with us through forty years has made all the difference. Here we are, wishing a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all those who trusted in our service and stood with us.


Monday, December 17, 2018

Martial Arts: The Ideal Christmas Gift


Martial Arts: The Ideal Christmas Gift


Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts Academy

220 Newbury St
Peabody MA 01960

Phone: (978) 535-7878
Email: info@brucemccorrys.com


Some of us are innately good at reading people and sensing what they want, so much so that choosing a holiday gift is no big deal. However, when it comes to the nearest and the dearest, the adept gift-giver also becomes confused and worried. This is often not because they don’t have a good gift in mind, but because they want to give the best gift ever. For the most important ones in your life, nothing less than a life-changing gift will do. And that is why you have to think out of the box and come up with the ideal, innovative Christmas gift idea, which is martial arts.

‘Gifting’ martial arts might sound a little odd, until you think of the miraculous changes that happens to a person’s life when you gift them with an opportunity to learn it. When you gift someone a chance to learn martial arts, you gift them:
  •  Health and Fitness: Martial arts is the ultimate health booster and fitness strategy. Martial art learners have better cardiac health, immune system and overall health profile. With martial arts, you burn calories and shed fat at unbelievable pace, making it the perfect fitness regime for anyone.
  •  Confidence and Success: There is so much to martial arts that makes a learner confident with himself/herself. It teaches positive attitude, self-esteem and assertiveness. It improves your posture and clears up your thoughts. For a child learner, it almost always helps to get better grades. Making you courageous, strong and confident acts as the key to personal and professional success.
  •  Safety and Security: Martial arts helps someone to stand up for themselves, and learn the basics of an effective self-defense. It makes them cautious to surroundings and alert to potential danger. Child martial art learners learn how to resist bullying and peer pressure through martial arts.
  •  Skills: Martial arts has a wide range of skills to teach a learner, whether he/she is a child or adult. It makes you better conversationalists, improves people skills, helps you to bond with others, and teaches you to manage work with family. The athletic skills gifted by martial arts can be a great boost to the grades and performance of a child learner.
  • Social Life: In any good martial art school, martial arts is not just about learning some moves, but also getting to know similar-minded people, learning to respect and cooperate with them, befriending them and widening your social circle. Your friends’ circle at martial art schools often acts as a powerful support group, because most of them might be pursuing martial arts to realize certain goals and defeat certain challenges, like you are. In some schools like Bruce McCorry’s Academy (Peabody, MA), you can join as a family, thus sharing your time with the ones you love the most.


Martial Arts: A Gift for Once and Forever
Whenever you give someone a chance to learn martial arts, you are gifting them all the benefits above. Even more brilliant is the fact that it is a gift for once and forever: unlike any material gift that you might buy for someone, the benefits of martial art learning will stay with them through their lives. In every way, martial arts is that gift which keeps on giving benefits to those who choose to learn it! 

Make this Christmas special with the ideal gift of martial arts!


Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts Academy


220 Newbury St
Peabody MA 01960

Phone: (978) 535-7878
Email: info@brucemccorrys.com

Friday, December 14, 2018

Martial Arts for Kids – A Better Option than Team Sports - Ten Key Factors


Martial Arts for Kids – A Better Option than Team Sports - Ten Key Factors 


Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts Academy
220 Newbury St
Peabody MA 01960

Phone: (978) 535-7878
Email: info@brucemccorrys.com

Experts on child development have emphasized time and again that the holistic growth of children – the development of their body, mind and intellect – is dependent not just on classroom education, but also on outdoor activities. Parents whose children are interested in team sports often do not take this warning seriously, because team sports is widely believed to provide all the benefits a child needs from outside the classroom. However, it needs to be stated that martial arts, with its innumerable benefits for kids, is always a better option than team sports.

What Makes Martial Arts a Better Option than Team Sports
Here are ten key factors that makes martial arts a better activity for child development compared to team sports:
  1. Confidence: There is nothing like martial arts to make learners believe in themselves. It makes kids confident, assertive, vocal, and self-content.
  2. Self-Defense: Unlike team sports, martial arts help children to learn to defend himself/herself by making them stronger, brave and alert to their surroundings.
  3. Discipline: Martial arts make a student follow rules and respect their co-learners. Through repeatedly performing this, they learn to be disciplined in everyday lives.
  4.  Personal achievement: Very few team sports allow participants to feel a sense of personal achievement, as victories are always a collective effort. Martial arts allows learners to experience individual achievement without losing the ability to cooperate with others.
  5. Fitness and Health: Martial arts train kids in a wide range of moves such as kicks, punches, swift moves, stretches, crunches, dodges and much more. The health and fitness benefits it provides are broader in scope and efficiency than team sports.
  6. Universal Participation: Martial arts are never a boys’ affair or a girls’ affair. Everyone can participate in martial arts, whether they are boys or girls; preschoolers or teenagers. Unlike team sports which demand high levels of efficiency from every player, martial arts adapt to the need and capability of each learner.
  7. Family Time: While most martial arts offer classes for adults too, at unique martial art schools like Bruce McCorry’s Academy (Peabody, MA), you can choose to join programs as a family, thus motivating and spending time with each other.
  8. Motivation and Recognition: In team sports, victories and defeats are unexpected. However martial arts, with the sequential belts-and-ranking system, helps learners to win accolades in a systematic progression, thus teaching them to stay committed to a goal despite defeats.
  9.  Benefits through the Year: If you consider team sports for physical benefits, the seasonal nature of many of them can cause inconsistent results. Martial arts can be practiced all year round with consistent result. It is always better to enroll in a school with regular practice, like Bruce McCorry’s Academy to stay steady and committed.
  10. Sports and Martial Arts can Go Together: If your kid already hooked to a team sports or athletics, you don’t have to choose one over the other. The greatest benefit of martial arts is that it aids performance in sports and athletics by shaping the learner’s body, making them stronger, sharpening reflexes and boosting energy. You can just choose both!


Choosing a professional martial art school with experienced and knowledgeable instructors is all you need to do to make martial arts work wonders in your life. Make the change today!

Monday, December 10, 2018

Celebrate Holidays through the Perfect Gift of Martial Arts


Celebrate Holidays through the Perfect Gift of Martial Arts

Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts Academy
220 Newbury St
Peabody MA 01960

Phone: (978) 535-7878
Email: info@brucemccorrys.com






Holidays are the most wonderful time of the year - but for the confused and anxious gifter, it is also the most difficult time of the year. If you are among those who cannot instantly come up with the perfect gift for your loved ones, it is time to think - the perfect gift does not always comes from the store! If you are willing to rethink your idea of what to get for those who matter, there are broad options. A perfect gift is that which can change the life of the receiver forever, and in that sense, there is no better gift than martial arts.

In many ways, martial arts is:

  •          A Gift of Self-Love and Self-Care: Martial art lessons make sure that the learner stays healthy, fit and energetic. It helps each learner to beat stress and to find confidence in what they do. Martial arts learners also learn to defend themselves and stay safe in an emergency. Thus, when you give someone an opportunity to learn martial arts, you are also giving them a chance to learn how to love and take care of themselves.

  •          A Gift of Success and Achievement: When you direct a child to martial arts, you are giving him/her the key to performing better in school, achieving better grades and being better athletes and sportsperson. As in the case of students, the benefits of martial arts such as better memory, brains, confidence, social skills and graceful demeanor are equally important for adults who want to achieve professional success. Martial arts, which will teach learners punctuality, coordination, dedication and perseverance is the stepping stone to academic and professional achievements.

  •          A Gift for the Family: There are many martial art schools out there, that are open to both adults and children, and will let you practice together as a family. When you choose martial arts as a gift for your family, you are also gifting them the chance to spend quality time with each other, motivate each other and learn each other better. Martial arts also helps adults to improve personal relationships and strike the much-needed balance between work and family.

  •          A Gift of Friends: When you choose martial art for someone, always make sure to choose a school with a vibrant campus life. It will give them a circle of good friends who share their age and interests. Whether you gift martial arts to the shy, introverted child or an adult with a narrow friend circle, martial arts will help them to overcome their inhibitions, broaden their social skills, and mingle with a group of like-minded peers.


A Gift that Keeps on Giving: Martial Arts for All
Simply the ideal choice for anyone from a preschooler to a senior, martial arts is the gift that keeps on giving. It gives the learner a lifetime of improved health and fitness, better personal and social skills, and a successful and secure future. If you are ready to do this, head to the nearest martial art school. Bruce McCorry’s Academy (Peabody, MA), with its brilliant instructors, bustling campus life, structured courses for preschoolers, kids, adults and seniors, and its amazing family programs is a perfect option, if you are nearby. Think about it - there is nothing better you can get for your loved ones this holidays… and yes, for yourself too!

Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts Academy
220 Newbury St
Peabody MA 01960

Phone: (978) 535-7878
Email: info@brucemccorrys.com

Thursday, December 6, 2018

Bruce McCorry’s Little Ninja’s Program - Facts and Benefits


Bruce McCorry’s Little Ninja’s Program - Facts and Benefits



Martial arts for preschoolers is not a concept quite unheard of, but the Little Ninja’s program in martial arts for kids between 3 and 6 years of age, offered by Bruce McCorry’s Academy (Peabody, MA) is a course that redraws what is usual and what is unique within preschooler martial art. The following highlights of the Little Ninjas program will tell you why it is important to opt the right martial art program for your little one, and how to make the right choice.

Bruce McCorry’s Little Ninja’s Program– The Key Benefits
  •       Most studies on child development tell us it is better to start martial arts as soon as a child’s formative years begin. While this is true, preschooler age is also a vulnerable time where your child should be in the right hands. Instructors at Bruce McCorry’s pay individual attention to each child, drawing the line between what is enjoyable and what is burdensome to each child in the program. This customized attention makes sure that each child is introduced to martial arts in a personalized manner that suits them best.

  •    Unlike most other preschooler martial arts courses, the Little Ninja’s draws upon a structured scheme prepared by experts, which blends martial arts with fun games, enjoyable activities and programs which your preschooler will enjoy for sure.

  •     The success mantra of Bruce McCorry’s Little Ninja’s lies in the principle of intrinsic motivation. It is not that easy to motivate a preschooler to participate in any activity other than playing without parental compulsion or the promise of rewards. Bruce McCorry’s program is structured in such a way that so many factors make the child motivated to participate in the course out of his/her love for the program. These factors are the fun syllabus, friendly instructors, enjoyable atmosphere and the kid-friendly nature of the Bruce McCorry’s campus.

  •     There is an eight-fold formula that forms the core of the Little Ninja’s program. The course aims to develop eight key skills: the physical skills of fitness, balance and coordination; the mental skills of memory, focus, control; and the behavioral skills of teamwork and discipline. The program thus hones all facets of your child’s growth and development.

  •    There are a secondary set of benefits that ensue from learning martial arts at the preschooler age, which Little Ninja’s provides. The program helps kids to build health, improves social skills like confidence and communication, develops linguistic skills like comprehension and clear speech, and helps in intellectual growth.

  •       A unique aspect about Little Ninja’s is that it acts as a gateway to the children’s martial art programs in the academy. The numerous benefits of children’s martial arts are quite known to all, but if a child is not innately passionate about martial arts, parents find it difficult to indulge them in martial arts and they miss out all that children’s martial arts has to offer. Little Ninja’s, however, is sure to get your little champ hooked to martial arts. Training in Little Ninja’s could open up a glorious martial arts future for your child.


If you are on the lookout for a martial art school with a difference for your little preschooler, it is high time you checked out Bruce McCorry’s. Make the right choice at the right time in your children’s like and make their future safe.

Bruce McCorry's Martial Arts Academy

220 Newbury St
Peabody MA 01960

Phone: (978) 535-7878
Email: info@brucemccorrys.com